self-confident - Story 125439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John had spent his entire life mastering the art of the perfect pizza dough. He knew every ingredient, every rise time. He had a natural ability. He had the best pizza in town. No one else knew the secret.

He was waiting at the train station when he saw the new pizzeria. It seemed to have exploded in popularity.

He walked past the restaurant. The aromas were familiar. “Perfecto Pizza,” the sign read. His name was John, but at least he knew that it was his recipe.

He walked over to the shop and ordered a slice. He felt a wave of satisfaction as he ate it.

Emotion: self-confident

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.45 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-confident. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 self-confident stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-confident emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-confident vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.778
`la`	0.550
`l`	0.467
`😎`	0.458
`😉`	0.411

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.961
`L`	-0.538
`😞`	-0.464
`마다`	-0.459
`😣`	-0.458